Words, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared, are also deeds. Words do something, they have intent and purpose. The question may legitimately be asked what Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was doing, or trying to do, when he uttered the... | Read..

Not since Lincoln had there been such an artful manipulator of the good, the bad, and the bewildered in between. I believe he [Roosevelt] saved the capitalist system by deliberately forgetting to balance the books, by transferring the gorgeous resources of credit from the bankers to the government. — ALISTAIR COOKE